New Year – Notes From My Garden

Happy New Year!

Published on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 by Catherine12 Comments

Farewell 2024!

Wishing you all a garden full of beautiful colour and heavenly perfume in 2025!

Bringing our gardens back to life is only a dream at this time of the year—but there is little to stop us from enjoying that dream. Seed, bulb and plant catalogues are popping through the letterbox and it’s a treat to sit and flick through the pages on a cold winter night, sparking inspiration and indulging in dreams of a perfect garden! I’m sure most of us are the same, we always end up with far more dream plants than will fit in our borders, right? But…there’s always room for a few more plants in the garden?

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Happy New Year

Published on January 2, 2021March 7, 2023 by Catherine23 Comments

2020 certainly went out with a bang. For me anyway. On Tuesday I was walking on our prom when I slipped on ice and broke my shoulder – the top of the humerus bone to be precise.

And so, 2021 opens with the prospect of no gardening and no photographs for a while. But it is not all doom and gloom as flower and seed catalogues are starting to drop through the letterbox and I’m sure I can pass some hours daydreaming of the spring and summer garden.

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